Christiane Northrup Quotes & Sayings

We are not proponents of long life. We are proponents of joyful life, and when you find yourself in joy, the longevity usually follows. We do not count the success of a life by its length; we count it by its joy. - ABRAHAM — Christiane Northrup

Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self? — Christiane Northrup

Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful. — Christiane Northrup

What would your life be like if your body were your friend and ally? — Christiane Northrup

Your beliefs and thoughts are wired into your biology. They become your cells, tissues, and organs. There's no supplement, no diet, no medicine, and no exercise regimen that can compare with the power of your thoughts and beliefs. That's the very first place you need to look when anything goes wrong with your body. — Christiane Northrup

Consider the following: More than 40 percent of women in the United States have likely been the victim of violence, including childhood sexual abuse (almost 18 percent), physical assault (more than 19 percent), rape (more than 20 percent), and intimate partner violence (almost 35 percent).4 Some 6 percent of all pregnant women experienced violence during their pregnancies as well.5 Despite the widespread violence against women, less than 10 percent of primary care physicians normally screen for domestic violence during routine office visits.6 Yet if the violence is not addressed, it — Christiane Northrup

No matter what you're feeling, the only way to get a difficult feeling to go away is simply to love yourself for it. If you think you're stupid, then love yourself for feeling that way. It's a paradox, but it works. To heal, you must be the first one to shine the light of compassion on any areas within you that you feel are unacceptable. — Christiane Northrup

Shame cannot exist in conditions of light, sunshine, and humor. So the very moment that you share your most shameful moments - and can learn to laugh about them - then the spell is lifted. And you, too, are free. — Christiane Northrup

I keep my center by [surrounding] myself with like-minded people who I can call and visit with and simply be with. — Christiane Northrup

Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is also a health risk. — Christiane Northrup

Still, far too often girls are given the message that their bodies, their lives, and their femaleness must be apologized for. Have you noticed how often women apologize? — Christiane Northrup

Energy is the prime mover of all we see and know. You change the energy and your body has to respond. — Christiane Northrup

When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs-in the service of birthing women, not their master. — Christiane Northrup

Our desires are the way that the healing life force comes through us and replenishes our bodies. — Christiane Northrup

According to Chinese and ancient Ayurvedic medicine, at age 60, women end their householder life and begin to develop their souls. Our fertility stops being about having children and starts being about what we create for ourselves that benefits us and the people around us. — Christiane Northrup

Understand that you have the ability to get healthy and stay healthy. — Christiane Northrup

Love is a universal force, like gravity, that holds the solar system together and pours into our hearts as life-force - and gets expressed to us most beautifully by small children and animals. — Christiane Northrup

with a woman's life expectancy at eighty-four years, it is reasonable to expect that she will not only live thirty to forty years beyond menopause, but be vibrant, sharp, and influential as well. The menopause you will experience is not your mother's (or grandmother's) menopause. — Christiane Northrup

The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power. — Christiane Northrup

Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first
not through intellectual understanding. — Christiane Northrup

True health is only possible when we understand the unity of our minds, emotions, spirits and physical bodies. — Christiane Northrup

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. — Christiane Northrup

courage necessary to make radical and life-giving changes in your mind and body that will allow you to flourish on all levels. — Christiane Northrup

By becoming mindful of our cultural programming, we can step out of it. — Christiane Northrup

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright. — Christiane Northrup

Unlived dreams often show up in your body as disease. Go for the Big Wow. Life is short! — Christiane Northrup

Your authentic, true self doesn't lie to you, mislead you, or take you away from your power source. — Christiane Northrup

hard-wired to seek love, joy, fulfillment - and health. Though we've too often been talked out of our desires as children, — Christiane Northrup

Thoughts are an important part of your inner wisdom and they are very powerful. A thought held long enough and repeated often enough becomes a belief. A belief then becomes your biology. — Christiane Northrup

When you move toward that which is most fulfilling and life-enhancing, healing follows regardless of what your health is like in that moment. — Christiane Northrup

If you want to have world peace - peace in your family, peace in your town and peace in your own bedroom - you simply begin with whatever creates peace within yourself. This vibration will go out from you in waves, and these waves have a very positive impact on the world. — Christiane Northrup

the most fundamental and radical of these changes is learning how to love and accept your precious body right now. It is, after all, the temple that houses your soul. — Christiane Northrup

Celebrate every relationship you've ever had. For better or worse, your relationships are your best teachers. — Christiane Northrup

If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot. — Christiane Northrup

[A]ny ecstatic experience can be healing not just for you but for others. Therapy is good to help you think differently and break patterns of pessimistic thinking or negative self-talk. But we have to be joyful, dance, and bring pleasure into our lives deliberately. — Christiane Northrup

True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness. — Christiane Northrup

The world at large is finally waking up to the fact that we can no longer ignore the victims of intimate violence and the link between intimate violence and international violence, including terrorism. — Christiane Northrup

Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path. — Christiane Northrup

I am tremendously moved anytime anyone gives birth to something from deep within themselves that is pure and authentic. — Christiane Northrup

You don't need to deteriorate with advancing age. — Christiane Northrup

The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they're the solution. — Christiane Northrup

My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional." — Christiane Northrup

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river. — Christiane Northrup

Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing. — Christiane Northrup

Our bodies love us so much that they will do anything necessary to bring us to a place in which we recognize and release our unlovingness toward ourselves that's causing us deep heartache. The message of illness and pain may be "It's time to bring healing love into your energy field. You've been in emotional pain long enough. Let me turn up the volume by creating physical pain so you'll pay attention and take care of your heart. — Christiane Northrup

And, as you know, the present moment is where ALL your power is. A reminder I need regularly. Maybe you too. — Christiane Northrup

the hermetic philosophy of the harmony between man and nature contained in the phrase "As above, so below. — Christiane Northrup

To get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it. — Christiane Northrup

Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities ... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies. — Christiane Northrup

The body creates health daily. It is inherently self-healing. — Christiane Northrup

Your emotions are your inner guidance system. They alone will let you know whether you are living in an environment of biochemical health or in an environment of biochemical distress. Understanding how your thoughts and your emotions affect every single hormone and cell in your body, and knowing how to change them in a way that is health-enhancing, gives you access to the most powerful and empowering health-creating secret on earth. — Christiane Northrup

Natural birth is full of magnificent, life-changing wisdom. — Christiane Northrup

We have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age. — Christiane Northrup

We are all hungry for genuine connection and caring, and we will not get this unless we find our Soul's tribe.

If we don't find this, we'll kill ourselves, either by finding an addiction to mask the pain or by ignoring what we need to stay healthy. — Christiane Northrup

Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what's not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities. — Christiane Northrup

The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing. — Christiane Northrup

The Greatest Pregnancy Ever is a treasure. It should be the very first thing a pregnant woman reads - in fact, every woman who intends to have a baby will be thrilled with the empowering message here. — Christiane Northrup

Our own body is the best health system we have-if we know how to listen to it. — Christiane Northrup

The secret to thriving is the knowledge that we are never simply victims of our bodies. It's very reassuring to know that we all have within us the ability to heal from anything and go on to live joy-filled lives. — Christiane Northrup

Another example of how connected we all are, and are meant to be, is the story of the "elephant whisperer," the late Lawrence Anthony. He was a conservationist who saved the lives of countless elephants — Christiane Northrup

Your health is not outside of you. — Christiane Northrup

We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior. — Christiane Northrup

Your thoughts and beliefs are the single most important indicator of your state of health. That is amazingly good — Christiane Northrup

longitudinal study of people over age 75, conducted over a period of 21 years by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, looked at whether activities from playing cards to swimming to doing housework affected cognitive ability. Almost none of the physical activities had any effect on dementia rates except for one: partner dancing, which lowered the risk by 76 percent. No other activity came anywhere near being as effective at protecting people from cognitive decline!3 — Christiane Northrup

Be open to the fact that Spirit answers prayers three ways: "Yes!" and "Not now" and "No, because I love you too much. — Christiane Northrup

If you have a headache every Monday morning when it is time for you to go to work, perhaps you're driving the wrong car, perhaps you're taking the wrong route, or you may be in the wrong line of work. Obviously, only you can figure out the message. — Christiane Northrup

Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth — Christiane Northrup

The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway ... it's a paradox. — Christiane Northrup

In Celtic cultures, the young maiden was seen as the flower; the mother, the fruit; the elder woman, the seed. The seed is the part that contains the knowledge and potential of all the other parts within it. — Christiane Northrup

I believe that we make soul contracts with ourselves and other souls before incarnating into our human bodies. — Christiane Northrup

My body and its condition are a barometer that is always trying to tell me which direction to go for my maximum creativity, health and fulfillment. And, because I'm human, I get off track now and again but I can always get back on. — Christiane Northrup

Be joyful and experience pleasurable lives. — Christiane Northrup

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle. — Christiane Northrup

becoming an ageless goddess means letting go of the fear that you aren't smart enough, educated enough, or intuitive enough to make the right decisions for yourself. — Christiane Northrup

The more you move toward what makes you feel good, and move away from those things which bring you distress and pain, the healthier you will be. — Christiane Northrup

Nothing happens randomly. — Christiane Northrup

I've spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female body - and figuring out how to fix it. I'm dedicating the second half of my life to illuminating everything that can go right with the female body, including teaching women how to truly flourish. — Christiane Northrup

Your mind is a dangerous neighbourhood and you shouldn't go in there alone at night — Christiane Northrup

As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science. — Christiane Northrup

Age is just a number, and agelessness means not buying into the idea that a number determines everything from your state of health to your attractiveness to your value. — Christiane Northrup

Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature. — Christiane Northrup

Throwing the leg of lamb out the window may have been Aunt Carol's outward expression of the process going on within her soul: the reclaiming of herself. Perhaps it was her way of saying how tired she was of waiting on her family, of signaling to them that she was past the cook/chauffeur/dishwasher stage of life. For many women, if not most, part of this reclamation process includes getting in touch with anger and, perhaps, blowing up at loved ones for the first time. — Christiane Northrup

The work I do to let go of my suffering diminishes the suffering of the whole universe. When I have room for my own pain, I have room for the pain of others. Only then can I be transformed into joy. As I heal, the Earth heals. — Christiane Northrup

become the physical embodiment of your soul so that you discover the woman you were always meant to be. — Christiane Northrup

If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the next week. Your body and your inner wisdom give you that high. — Christiane Northrup